“Conference Calls for
Parents and Primary Caregivers” Mission
Statement:
- To provide Parents and
Primary Caregivers an ongoing, convenient and
affordable opportunity to easily and
continuously gain awareness and knowledge which
support their parenting success
- To provide a central, easy-to-access
source which Parents & Primary
Caregivers can utilize—anytime, day or
night—whatever works for their lifestyle and
schedule!
- To empower and support Parents &
Primary Caregivers as the most vital
“Agents-of-Change” for the healing, growth
& success of their children and families
- To provide
inspiring & fresh learning from a wide array of
*respected specialists, psychotherapists and other
health care professionals in the field of
regulation, attachment/bonding, & trauma.
Our primary focus: “Success and Happiness for
Kids & their Families through Regulation (see
below) Support”
*(see
below for list of some of those with whom we’ll be
speaking-- psychotherapists, counselors,
psychologists, neuropsychologists, occupational
therapists, trauma specialists, family, childhood
and development specialists, pregnancy & birth
health care practitioners, researchers and
more)
An array of big and
little traumas and losses, early on and even later,
can impact regulation (see below for “Benefits of Healthy
Regulation”),
attachment and bonding in a parent/ child
relationship. It can also impact the
behaviors, happiness, social and cognitive
success of a child.
We
will be talking weekly with different, respected
specialists in the fields of
regulation,
attachment, and
trauma.
Format
of “Conference Calls for
Parents”
First
half: Focused Interview with
Specialist
Second
half: Questions and Answers with
Specialist
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Folks who may
benefit from the "Conference Calls for Parents and
Primary Caregivers" package:
- First and foremost, any parental
figure who wishes to learn and
practice all they can about helping their child with
regulation (see below) and more about strengthening
the bond they share with their child
- Adoptive and Foster families, including next of
kin, raising children (e.g. Grandparents raising
grandchildren)
- Mothers who experienced post-partum depression,
serious illness, medical or other trauma during
their pregnancy or 1st 18 months to 3 years of their
child’s life
- Parents and children who have experienced birth
or post-birth trauma
- Mother’s or children who have experienced
significant loss & grief during in utero or
early development
- Children & Families who have experienced any
trauma, including medical trauma, natural or other
disasters (i.e. earthquake, hurricane, 9-11) or
domestic violence during the gestational period with
their child or within the first three years of their
child's life
- Children who have medical impairment/issues
involving auditory, vision, tactile senses (can
create difficulties in attachment due to more
limited opportunities to see, hear, and feel through
touch, information which helps build a “sense of
self” and of relationship to others)
- Any parent or child with difficulties with
regulating emotion or managing anxiety
- Parents with a child with challenging behaviors
- Parents who have histories of trauma or early
childhood neglect and loss
The "Conference Calls for
Parents and Primary Caregivers" package
includes:
- Weekly one hour conference
calls in which you hear interviews and
can then choose (or not) to ask questions of
psychotherapists and health care professionals who
work with and address issues of emotional and
physical regulation, attachment & bonding, the
impact of trauma on development, and who support you
as a powerful agent in your child’s healing, growth
and success.
- You can take part
in the call LIVE or listen to the recorded version
later at a time you choose through the REPLAY
LINE.
You
will also receive the following as part of the
"Conference Calls for Parents and Primary Caregivers"
package:
- An
Online Download of Kathy Kinskey’s
book,
More Happiness & Success for Your Child
through a Stronger Bond with You
- Monthly
e-Newsletter which
includes:
- Recommended “Books Worth Reading” by
authors in this field
- Related News & Events (workshops,
fairs, learning opportunities near and far)
- Highlighted Resources for Parents,
Children, & Families
- “Kathy’s
Column for
Parents”
-- One parent shares a question or challenge to
which Kathy respond
- One half hour Parent/ Primary
Caregiver Phone-Consult with Kathy
- Occasional resources from
Specialists who are our Guest Speakers on the weekly
calls
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Benefits of Healthy Self
& Emotional Regulation:
- Being
able to calm, self-soothe with change,
upset, transition, or when “triggered”
- Being
more available for reciprocity in
relationship, for giving and receiving, for
trust being the foundation in relationship (rather
than control) in order to feel safe
- Having
more capacity for increasing social skills
and success
- Having
access to qualities of empathy,
consciousness, and concern for one’s
impact on other (humans, animals, the
environment)
- Being
more resilient and less vulnerable to
self-esteem issues and negative or distorted
thinking.
- Reserving
more capacity for learning since learning
happens best when our concentration is “on” due to
feeling calm and safe in the world
- Being
physically more integrated, coordinated,
and at ease in one’s own body & with physical
boundaries—having a sense of strength and
resources within
- Having increased ability
for a chosen response rather than
reacting
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"Conference Calls for
Parents and Primary Caregivers" package
Focus:
- Focus on Understanding
& Awareness: Phone
conference interviews with experts in the fields of
the neurobiology of regulation, attachment,
bonding—incorporating REAL, researched, &
working knowledge about how early nervous system and
brain development impacts child and family success
and peace. We will also focus on how little
and big traumas and losses impact the nervous system
and how to effectively work with those very real
issues in the life of your family.
- Focus on
Solutions: Kathy
interviews respected specialists in this field for
their most highly recommended Tools and Skills to
help you to help your clients and patients create
more Peace & Joy Now by:
- Decreasing:
their child’s struggles socially
& with learning, anxiety, stress, “meltdowns,”
worry, and fearful & distorted thinking
- Increasing:
their child’s social ease &
success, self-esteem, concentration & learning
success, success with developmental tasks, their
feeling of being at ease in relationship, their
ability to take positive risks with new
experiences, to create and learn without the need
for perfection, and their ability to experience,
manage, and trust a wide variety of emotions.
- Focus—Convenient
Package Support for Parents & Primary
Caregivers:
- Weekly Conference Calls
- Online (one time) download of Kathy’s
book,
More Happiness & Success for Your Child
through a Stronger Bond with You
- Monthly Newsletter
- Awareness of the specialized work of
Specialists of our Conference Call Guest
Speakers, as well as resources they may suggest or
occasionally offer
- A half hour Phone Consult with Kathy Kinskey,
M.A., L.P.C.
- Support-- not feeling alone in the most
important job of parenting--hearing other
parent’s questions for the Conference Call Guest
Speakers and the specialized & supportive
responses to those questions
Some of the
Professionals & Specialists with Whom We'll Be
Talking:
*Myrna
Martin, MN, RCC,
RCST® is a registered nurse
(RN) with a Masters' degree in Family Therapy, a
member of the BC Association of Clinical Counselors,
The North American Craniosacral Association, BC
Adoption Association, The Western Canada Infant Mental
Health Association and the American Association of
Prenatal and Perinatal Health and Psychology.
Myrna
has 35 years experience working with people
therapeutically as a nurse, public health nurse,
family therapist, Integrative Body/Mind Therapist
(IBP) and a craniosacral therapist.
For many
years she was Director of Nelson and Area Mental
Health Services (British Columbia,
Canada).
Myrna has been studying and practicing
early trauma resolution work with babies and young
children for many years.
Myrna is a long term
resident of Nelson, BC, who practices and
teaches there. She also travels to the USA, England
and Europe facilitating process workshops for adults
and trainings and seminars for professionals.
Myrna is certified by Dr. Ray Castellino to
give process workshops and by Dr. William Emerson to
facilitate personal intensive workshops. She teaches a
two year Prenatal and Perinatal Professional Training
in Canada and the United States.
Annie
Brook, Ph.D., LPC, is a psychologist who holds
a doctorate in perinatal psychology and human
sexuality, with a focus on movement education, sacred
sexuality and the sacred arts. She is the
co-owner of Colorado Therapies, former director of
Naropa University Body Psychotherapy track for Somatic
Masters program, is a certified BodyMind
Psychotherapist and BodyMind Centering® teacher.
Annie has worked in trauma units in Children's
Hospitals in Oakland and Seattle. She is a
skilled educator and therapist with over 25 years
experience working in mental health clinics, public
schools, and in private practice.
Annie
has taught internationally and worked with infants,
teens, families, and individuals. Her community
work and international training includes courses in
Perinatal Psychology, Working with Babies, Trust,
Attachment, Adult Intimacy and Healthy Sexuality,
BodyMind Psychotherapy, BodyMind Centering®, and
Contact Improvisation.
Annie is a the
author of three books on movement-based learning,
From
Conception to Crawling, Contact
Improvisation and BodyMind Centering, and Sexuality and the
Sacred. She has is a published poet,
wrote a column for "Tantra: The Magazine", and has
developed numerous audio and video tapes on movement
education. Her newest book, Intimacy,
Attachment, and Imprints: A Perinatal Guide for
Therapists, Couples, and Parents, is soon
to go to press.
Suzanne
Marie, MA, LPC, RCST, is a Licensed
Professional Counselor, has a Masters degree in
Marriage & Family Counseling Psychology, and holds
advanced training in Somatic Experience and Trauma
Resolution. She is trained as an Integrative Body
Psychotherapist and instructor and is a registered
Cranial Sacral therapist.
Suzanne
teaches Somatic Psychotherapy for Naropa University
and is an instructor at Healing Spirits Massage
School. She has 20 years of experience as a
massage therapist, a cranial sacral therapist, and as
a body-centered individual, couples & family
psychotherapist.
Suzanne has a private
practice in Boulder, Colorado, where she works with
trauma resolution for individuals, mothers &
infants, and families, provides specialized services
for attachment & bonding work, active involvement
with hospital births, and pre & post care for
mother & baby. She is currently completing
attachment pre & perinatal certification with
Myrna Martin, and a birth coach doula
certification.
*Ana do Valle, OTR,
SEP, SIC, NDTC is
an Occupational Therapist who specializes in affect
regulation with children, infants and adults. She is a
body centered therapist, certified in Sensory
Integration and Neuro Developmental Approach. She has
experience working with trauma resultant from cultural
fragmentation and she has studied cross-cultural
perspectives of trauma with indigenous and shamanic
communities in South America.
Ana has
developed a program for Preventing Surgical Trauma
addressing the needs of children and adults undergoing
medical procedures. Ana has extensive experience in
the area of Physical Medicine addressing medical
diagnosis to include Fibromyalgia, Reflex Sympathetic
Dystrophy (RSD),Chronic Pain and other diagnosis
related to the autonomic nervous system dysregulation.
Ana co-facilitates an Addictions
Relapse Prevention Group (Recovery Awareness and
Resiliency )in Boulder, CO.
Ana facilitates
and coordinates Intensive Programs for clients from
out of state or the country interested in experiencing
an inter-disciplinary approach to Healing Trauma.
Ana offers workshops on the subjects of affect
modulation, self-regulation and surgical trauma
prevention. She combines the Sensory Integrative
Approach (Sensory Integration Dysfunction) with
Somatic Experiencing in healing trauma.
Ana is
approved to provide individual and group supervision
sessions for all levels of Somatic Experiencing
Practitioners.
Ana currently has a private
practice in Boulder CO. She contracts with schools and
hospitals in the area.
*Cynthia
Divino, Ph.D. is a clinical
psychologist in private practice, a clinical
supervisor for the University of Colorado at Boulder,
and a board member of the Boulder Institute for
Psychotherapy and Research (BIPR). She co-teaches the
year-long Psychotherapy Seminar for BIPR Interns and
Postdoctoral Students. Dr. Divino also serves on the
Training Committee and Research Committee for BIPR. In
the past, she has presented both small group seminars
and large group presentations for BIPR.
Dr.
Divino has served as the Assistant Director of the
Child and Family Treatment Center of Children's
Hospital of San Francisco and as Assistant Professor
at the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center.
With
co-authors Michael Freedman, Ph.D. and Samuel
Rosenberg, Ph.D., she has published a book, Living
Well With Asthma. Dr. Divino has a Bachelor of
Science Degree in Psychology (awarded June 1979) from
the University of Utah and a Ph.D. from the California
School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley (awarded
January 1997). Her research interests are in the area
of Affect Tolerance and Modulation, Trauma, and
Bipolar Disorder.
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